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Crawl helper is really fantastic. Also grab the community tokens -- they will auto-map graphics to all the creatures in the system. I think you have to either use a macro or just reimport the monsters from the compendium.

I don't feel like combat is a failed state at all in Shadowdark, but it's definitely not the random blunder into a room and roll for initiative that you find in most modern D20 games.

That's the default in the SD games I've played in or run. In melee, thieves can spend a round outside of the scrum to hide then sneak around and get in the backstab. To be fair, in most old school games, how useful the backstab rules are will depend on your GM's rulings and whether they're being...

A talent that lets you hide while being observed, even if it's just for a split second. And maybe with a mechanic where you can lose it (like a spell casting roll). [Because in my game it was almost impossible to ever get to backstab. Or escape from enemies.]

The Foundry implementation is insanely well done. There's also a lights out theme and a crawl helper that does encounter checks and initiative. The package says it's the quickstart, but it's complete. Better than most commercial implementations.

It depends whether you view alternative as rules or background. It's not a clone. It's a completely separate system. But back in the day, the whole point of Magic World was to take the Runequest rules and apply them to a generic high fantasy D&D-like setting. So if the "D&D alternative" is about...

I haven't run it, but Shrine of the Jaguar Princess won an ennie, so it must be doing something right. It's 26 rooms.

And the using of the background for skills opens up that "player skill" stuff that the OSR talks about. Come up with a compelling case to the GM that because you are "banished" that you know how to do something?

itch.io is the place to go for pay what you want Shadowdark. if you hang around the Discord, you'll see a lot of suggestions.

It's not about martinis, it's about Bond's reaction to danger. He can be physically shaken, but never emotionally stirred.

That's an interesting question. For Shadowdark, the Western Reaches are pretty much generic fantasy. It's pretty much designed to be dropped into any sort of D&D-ish setting. I'd say whether you consider it OSR or not depends mostly on rules. Is OSR limited to pure retroclones or is a modern 5E...

D20 system with class/level mechanics and armor class that affects the chance to hit, rather than reducing damage.

To start, a D20 class/level based fantasy game descended from Dungeons and Dragons. I play a lot of games that occasionally get tagged as OSR like Call of Cthulhu or Dragonbane, and they match a lot of the traits of OSR games, but I think it's really just the D&D descended ones that count. But...

I'm one of the "other" and that one has come up repeatedly: signing up for a game and showing up wanting to play on a tablet or phone.

That they were not planning any more projects with the Bledshaws after the Jaquays properties.

I would assume all backers are eligible for a refund and PF1 is just a shorthand. OTOH, in their latest proclamation from the Overlordbunker, the Bledshaws claimed they were going to be doing their own release of CSIO, now that Goodman has paid their debts off. So possibly it's only the PF...

So this contract has a disparagement clause that would prevent saying it was signed before 2020 or that they're obligated to fulfill the terms because that would damage sales, but at the same time it allows Goodman to repeatedly take to video to talk about how reprehensible the Bledshaws are...

I had a really memorable character in Weird Frontiers, the weird west DCC offshoot. I rolled 4 for STR, but otherwise ok stats. Why would they have such a low strength? It came to me: Because they're old! So I created Old Sally. (Pronounced "ole" held out long and with a western twang.) She was...

If you really want a history of TTRPGs, that would be the ultimate IMHO. When I was making my meager and now embarrassing contributions in the 80s, there were no contracts for authors, not even a terms of service. You just sent stuff and technically, you were paying her to print your "zine."...

I wish they'd died before they got old.